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This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
Today Lisa Dettmer talks NJ4, Renata Hill and Patreese, two of the young african american lesbians who were incarcerated for fighting back after a homophobic attack, and the filmmaker Blair Dorosh-Walther who made the riveting documentary about their struggle “Out in the Night,” featured at the Frameline Film Festival next week. And Angela Wellman talks … Continued
PHENOMENAL WOMEN: As we all mourn the immortal Maya Angelou, we also pay tribute to some lesser known feminist sheroes: African American feminist historian Stephanie Camp, who died in April at age 46, and psychologist Sandra Bem, whose work helped put an end to sex-segregated employment advertising and open up more careers to women. We … Continued
On KPFA radio’s Women’s Magazine this Memorial day Monday May 26th at 1pm we will be presenting a special Memorial Day’s tribute by daughters to the Mother’s in their lives and around the world, from Argentina, to Palestine to Iran and in the U.S. , to mothers who have survived the hidden war on … Continued
Canadian Chinese gossip maven Elaine Lui discusses her new memoir, LISTEN TO THE SQUAWKING CHICKEN. Then we speak with Sigi Arnejo, Genevieve Erin O’Brien and Kay Cuajunco, LGBT artists featured in EATING CULTURES, an Asian American multimedia art exhibition exploring food, identity and migration; and we preview women-directed and gender-oriented films at this year’s SF … Continued
In this Earth Day special, we listen to a talk by Indian environmentalist activist and scholar Vandana Shiva and a 2006 interview with the late Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement. And we hear voices from the first Latino Poetry Festival and young radical women poets.
Art as transformation: Kate Raphael talks with filmmaker and novelist Lucia Puenzo, whose film THE GERMAN DOCTOR (WAKOLDA), adapted from her novel, opens next week. Tara Dorabji talks with Shailja Patel, whose one-woman show Migritude, is now a book published by Kaya Press, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week with a reading at City … Continued
As most mainstream media ignore the UN Report on Climate Change, we talk with Carla Perez, Doria Robinson and Ellen Choy of Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project about the concepts of climate justice, food justice and resilience-based organizing. And comedians Karinda Dobbins and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan preview their upcoming show, Stand Up Sit Down, where … Continued
